While a main portion of the book deals with this love triangle that Anne finds herself in, it also focuses on the trouble that her own family finds itself in, mainly due to her brother who thinks he deserves more in life than he is given, going as far as to believe he himself should be king.įull of treachery and intrigue, it is easy to get caught up in everything that goes on in this story. Anne is a strong woman but finds herself at the mercy of her brother and her husband, who at one point have her sent to a nunnery for being in the same room with Compton. She is married to Lord Hastings, but manages to catch not only King Henry’s eye, but also his boon companion, Sir William Compton’s eye. I love how Kate Emerson takes lesser known characters from the court of the Tudor kings and queens and tells us their story.Īt the King’s Pleasure is centered around Anne Stafford, who is sister to the Duke of Buckingham and a lady-in-waiting to Queen Catherine of Aragon.

My thoughts: This is the 4th book in Kate Emerson’s Secrets of the Tudor Court series and I really enjoyed it. Our hearts in this sumptuous novel of Tudor scandal and intrigue. Will she be forced to decideīetween the two men she desires-and the one she doesn’t?Ĭharms again with a heroine who steps out of the pages of history to win

Men clustering around her, Anne realizes she has become perilouslyĮnmeshed in the intrigues of the court.

But when King Henry VIII, amorous as always, joins the Lord Hastings…and the king’s boon companion, the attentive Sir Beautiful Lady Anne Stafford, lady-in- waiting to QueenĬatherine of Aragon, is torn between her love for her husband, George, First line: “This latest news from the court pleases me,” said Edward Stafford, third Duke of Buckingham, “but my brother’s continued confinement in the Tower of London is worrisome.”ĭesiring another.

At the King's Pleasure by Kate Emerson